The Western equivalent - let's call her Tigger Mum - well, she was praising hers for creating frankly abominable craft objects, and being nice "indulgent", says Chua, thus ensuring her kids were heading for global decline and a dangerously unproductive activity called "fun".

According to Magolon's suit, authorities in Florida received 24 related complaints in the week after a Walt Disney World employee dressed as "Tigger" was charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl and her mother in 2004.